Here is the final fact I want to share with you. Before the insurgents ever began to create discord in El Salvador. there were 350.000 Salvadorans in the United States. Obviously. they were not refugees when there was no insurgency. There is one thing they were. They were economic migrantsillegal. undocumented workers. 350.000 of them here before any insurgency ever took place in El Salvador. Then this fact: The second largest flow of illegal undocumented aliens in our country. apprehended by the United States over the years. are El Salvadorans. After Mexicans. they are the second largest illegal flowand that long before insurgency in their country. With the refugee camps in Honduras willing to take the Salvadoran seeking a refuge or safe haven. it would be an extraordinary statement for us to say here that we are the country of refuge for the Salvadorans. They have countries of refuge in Central America before they come here. But they do not seek refuge in those countries. they come on to the United States to seek this very special status. a status which is much better than that of an illegal. undocumented worker. we can all be assured. That is the issue. Mr.
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